NekoScan vs Lensculpt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NekoScan
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Walk slowly around a room or an object with a LiDAR-equipped iPhone or iPad, and NekoScan turns it into a textured 3D model you can measure, walk through and export. Use it for renovation quotes, interior design, documenting a home, 3D printing, or collecting assets for games and art. SCAN • Unlimited LiDAR scans — no scan count, no storage cap • Captures the room structure (walls, doors, windows) alongside the scan • Waits for the camera to settle before grabbing a frame, so textures stay sharp • Keeps the original frames, so you can re-process any scan later with different settings TEXTURED 3D MODELS • Post-processing bakes a fully textured mesh; 1K and 2K textures are free • Auto-straighten aligns the model to its main walls — no fiddling with angles • Texture seams move to where neighboring frames agree, with exposure leveled across them VIEW AND EDIT • Orbit and zoom, with perspective, orthographic and top-down floor-plan cameras • See-through mode lets you look into a room from outside • Crop and rotate: box the part you want to keep and drop the stray ceiling and floor • VR mode: walk through the model in first person with an on-screen joystick • Browse the raw RGB frames captured during the scan • Map view: turn on geotagging and your scans appear on a map (off by default) MEASURE • Point-to-point distance (free) • Rectangle dimensions and polygon area (Pro) FLOOR PLANS (PRO) • Generate a floor plan from the captured room structure or from a slice through the mesh • Automatic floor area, plus wall, door and window counts • Adjustable slice height and a 1 m grid • Share as a PNG image or a DXF file for your CAD software EXPORT AND SHARE • USDZ — opens in AR Quick Look on any iPhone (free) • NekoScan snapshot (.neko3d) — share with other NekoScan users (free) • OBJ with textures, GLB, PLY, STL, 3MF, and the full raw .neko3d package with every frame (Pro) • Optionally bundle every export into a single ZIP No LiDAR? The app still installs, and it opens .neko3d files shared by others so you can view, measure and export them. NEKO3D PRO — BUY ONCE, KEEP IT • 4K and 8K high-resolution textures • Custom post-processing and advanced capture settings • OBJ / GLB / PLY / STL / 3MF and full raw-data export • Rectangle and polygon area measurement • Floor plans, shareable as PNG or DXF Not a subscription, nothing auto-renews. New phone or reinstalled? Settings → NekoScan Pro → Restore Purchases brings it back at no charge. And without Pro, every scan you have already made can always be viewed and exported. PRIVACY NekoScan collects nothing. No account, no server, no ads, no analytics. Everything you scan stays on your device. REQUIREMENTS Scanning needs a LiDAR sensor: iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro / Pro Max models, or iPad Pro (2020 or later). Requires iOS 18.6 or later. The app is available in English, Traditional Chinese and Japanese, and follows your iOS language setting. Questions or problems: support@nekosoft.io
Lensculpt
Create 3D models from iPhone camera captures locally on your device. Build textured USDZ assets, adjust them non-destructively, and export in various formats. Offers manual camera controls for consistent results.
- Local 3D asset creation
- Textured USDZ model building
- Non-destructive texture adjustments
- Multiple export formats (USDZ, OBJ, FBX)
- Manual camera controls
- LiDAR room scanning
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Lensculpt turns overlapping iPhone camera views into local 3D assets. Capture rigid, textured objects from multiple distances and heights, scan a room on a supported LiDAR iPhone, or try the experimental Building Exterior workflow without a prescribed circular route. Build textured USDZ models on the device, preview their geometry in shaded or wireframe form, apply non-destructive texture and cleanup adjustments, and open the USDZ in a full-screen 3D viewer. Export completed meshes as USDZ, OBJ, or FBX, and share experimental Gaussian results as SPZ. Manual exposure, white-balance, and focus controls help keep texture captures consistent on supported cameras. On iOS 26, accepted system-managed continued-processing tasks may continue model generation while you use another app; the app clearly reports when processing must remain in the foreground. Lensculpt has no account, ads, analytics, or automatic cloud upload. Captures and models stay in the app container until you explicitly share them. Results depend on the device, lighting, subject, coverage, and available resources. Reflective, transparent, moving, flexible, and low-texture subjects may fail or produce incomplete models. Gaussian training and Building Exterior capture are experimental. Lensculpt does not claim certified measurements, exact scale, or complete unseen surfaces.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lensculpt at none against NekoScan's 1. Lensculpt also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. NekoScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lensculpt asks for nothing beyond the download.
NekoScan ships an update every 6 weeks, Lensculpt daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | NekoScan | Lensculpt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHENG HSUAN HSIEH | Garrett Templar |
In-app purchases
NekoScan
- 3D室內掃描 Pro$14.99
Lensculpt
No in-app purchases









